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The 1862 opening of the second Causeway in Perth, Western Australia, was disrupted by a young man on horseback who raced across after announcing that he would be first to do so. 
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| In 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site. |
| The wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India, a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. |
| Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison. |
| Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping. |
| In designing a new analogue filter, Sidney Darlington found tables of the exact elliptic functions required in an 1829 Latin paper by Carl Jacobi in the New York City Library. |
| Diorhabda carinata (pictured), D. sublineata and D. elongata, three species of leaf beetle in Eurasia and North Africa, are used as biological pest control agents against invasive tamarisk trees in North America. |
| Nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith. |
| In 2004, there were 1.8 million traditional fishing boats, such as dugouts and coracles. |
| After affixing blame for the death of Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yang Guangxian took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy. |
| Bob Dylan's song "Joey" is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo. |
| The Japanese ammunition ship Kashino was specifically designed to transport the Yamato class battleships' main battery to the shipyards where they were being built. |
| The earthquake of 1348 in the Alpine region of Friuli hit at the same time as the plague in Italy and it caused odours to come up through the earth. |
| The Shanhua Temple (pictured) in Datong, China, contains a hall that is over 900 years old. |
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